Former Royal Navy instructor from Yeovil jailed after stalking woman out of her own home

A former Royal Navy helicopter instructor from Yeovil has been jailed for stalking a businesswoman who he signed up to sadomasochistic dating sites after she ended their relationship.

Kim Allison, aged 62, met the victim through online dating after his own wife died early last year.

They shared interests in cruising and opera but Allison was unable to accept her decision to leave him when they split up after five months.

He embarked on a campaign of stalking which he carried on despite having a police warning and a suspended sentence. He was jailed in April for breaking an order not to contact her but did so again just four days after being released.

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He installed tracking software on her phone, and monitored all her online activity. He set up false profiles in her name on S and M dating sites which have resulted in her receiving scores of abusive e-mails.

He used bogus online identities to contact her through the Cruisemates dating website and hacked into an online bridge club, forcing her to stop playing.

At the height of his stalking the 61-year-old was so frightened that she fled her home in Torquay. She was also forced to delete all her social media accounts to stop him using them to contact her.

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He told him: "This case doesn't just pass the custody threshhold, it hurdles it. The aggravating factors are your history of disobeying court orders, breaches being committed shortly after orders were made, and shortly after your release from jail.

"The fact that the victim was signed up to sexual websites means she cannot ever escape. She is still bombarded with sexually explicit messages. That was a grossly wicked thing to do.

"I have read her victim personal statement, which is measured and does credit to her. It sets out in some detail the effect of your behaviour has had on her, to the extent that at one stage she was driven from her own home."

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Miss Jo Martin, prosecuting, said Allison met the victim through a dating website and they had a relationship from May to October 2016.

The stalking started soon afterwards with hundreds of phone calls and messages and sexually aggressive e mails sent under false identities. He signed her up to sex sites which led to her receiving pornographic messages on an almost daily basis.

Police issued a warning on December 13, 2016 and prosecuted Allison for the first time when he ignored it. He received a 16 week suspended sentence in January this year.